Oregon Route 132 (OR 132),
also known as Delta Highway is a short limited-access
freeway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway, and expressway. Other similar terms ...
in
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie River (Oregon), McKenzie and Willamette River, Willamette rivers, ...
, United States, linking downtown Eugene with
Beltline Highway.
Route description
OR 132 begins at an interchange with
Interstate 105 (I-105) and
OR 126 on the north bank of the
Willamette River
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, opposite
Downtown Eugene. It travels north and intersects Valley River Drive, which serves the
Valley River Center and a nearby retail district that includes several
car dealership
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s. The highway crosses under a
cable-stayed
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pedestrian bridge
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and travels northeast through the Delta Ponds, a wetland area and city park surrounded by housing. OR 132 intersects Goodpasture Island Road and continues north to an interchange with the Randy Papé Beltline Highway (
OR 569), which encircles the north and west of Eugene and provides connections to
I-5. The freeway ends at the Randy Papé Beltline Highway, but the road continues as a two-lane surface street named North Delta Road.
History
OR 132 opened on October 27, 1964 as Delta Highway and is named for the nearby McKenzie-Willamette delta.
The lowest construction bid for the project, submitted by the R. A. Heintz Company, was withdrawn due to an accounting error, resulting in a dispute between the county government and the contractor, who was later awarded the bid in a second round.
Under a 2017 bill passed by the state legislature, the Oregon Transportation Commission negotiated a jurisdictional transfer with Lane County for the Delta Highway that was finalized in 2019. On January 23, 2020, the commission approved the designation of OR 132 for the corridor.
The transfer was planned ahead of state-funded improvements to the highway's northern interchange at OR 569.
Exit list
See also
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References
External links
{{commons category-inline, Delta Highway
Transportation in Lane County, Oregon
Transportation in Eugene, Oregon
State routes in Oregon
Freeways in the United States